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A list of great teen fiction as listed on Teenreads.com

  1. 1.
    1776
    by David McCullough

  2. 2.
    1984
    by George Orwell

  3. 3.

  4. 5.
    The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
    by Michael Chabon

  5. 6.
    Amazing Grace
    by Megan Shull

  6. 7.
    Anansi Boys: A Novel
    by Neil Gaiman

  7. 8.
    Angela's Ashes: A Memoir
    by Frank McCourt

  8. 9.
    Annie John: A Novel
    by Jamaica Kincaid

  9. 10.
    Atonement: A Novel
    by Ian McEwan

  10. 11.
    Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress: A Novel
    by Dai Sijie

  11. 12.
    The Bean Trees
    by Barbara Kingsolver

  12. 13.
    Bee Season: A Novel
    by Myla Goldberg

  13. 14.
    Beginner's Luck: A Novel (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
    by Laura Pedersen

  14. 15.
    Bel Canto
    by Ann Patchett

  15. 16.
    The Bell Jar (P.S.)
    by Sylvia Plath

  16. 17.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

  17. 18.
    Big Fish: A Novel of Mythic Proportions
    by Daniel Wallace

  18. 19.
    The Big Shuffle: A Novel
    by Laura Pedersen

  19. 20.
    Blind Faith
    by Ellen Wittlinger

  20. 21.
    The Blood of Flowers: A Novel
    by Anita Amirrezvani

  21. 22.
    The Blue Girl
    by Charles de Lint

  22. 23.
    The Body of Christopher Creed
    by Carol Plum-Ucci

  23. 24.
    The Book Thief
    by Markus Zusak

  24. 25.
    The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
    by John Boyne

  25. 26.
    Brave New World
    by Aldous Huxley

  26. 27.
    Breakfast at Tiffany's (First Vintage International)
    by TRUMAN CAPOTE

  27. 28.
    Breaking Point
    by Alex Flinn

  28. 29.
    A Brief Chapter in My Impossible Life
    by Dana Reinhardt

  29. 30.
    The Brief History of the Dead: A novel
    by Kevin Brockmeier

  30. 31.
    Bronx Masquerade
    by Nikki Grimes

  31. 32.
    Brooklyn Rose
    by Ann Rinaldi

  32. 33.
    Bud, Not Buddy (Coretta Scott King Author Award Winner)
    by Christopher Paul Curtis

  33. 34.
    Catalyst
    by Laurie Halse Anderson

  34. 35.
    Catch-22
    by Joseph Heller

  35. 36.
    The Catcher in the Rye
    by J. D. Salinger

  36. 37.
    A Certain Slant of Light
    by Laura Whitcomb

  37. 38.
    Cheaper by the Dozen (Perennial Classics)
    by Frank B. Gilbreth

  38. 39.
    A Child Called "It": One Child's Courage to Survive
    by Dave Pelzer

  39. 40.
    The Children of Hurin
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  40. 41.
    The Chocolate War
    by Robert Cormier

  41. 42.
    The Chosen
    by Chaim Potok

  42. 43.
    The Chronicles of Narnia Boxed Set
    by C.S. Lewis

  43. 44.
    Cold Mountain: A Novel
    by Charles Frazier

  44. 45.
    Cold Sassy Tree
    by Olive Ann Burns

  45. 46.
    The Color Purple
    by Alice Walker

  46. 47.
    A Confederacy of Dunces
    by John Kennedy Toole

  47. 48.
    Copper Sun
    by Sharon M. Draper

  48. 49.
    Corelli's Mandolin: A Novel
    by Louis de Bernieres

  49. 50.
    Crow Lake (Today Show Book Club #7)
    by Mary Lawson

  50. 51.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
    by Mark Haddon

  51. 52.
    Dairy Queen
    by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  52. 53.
    Dandelion Wine
    by Ray Bradbury

  53. 54.
    Dear John
    by Nicholas Sparks

  54. 56.
    The Diary of a Young Girl
    by Anne Frank

  55. 57.
    The Distance from Normandy: A Novel
    by Jonathan Hull

  56. 58.
    The Dive From Clausen's Pier: A Novel
    by Ann Packer

  57. 59.
    Dune (Dune Chronicles, Book 1)
    by Frank Herbert

  58. 60.
    The Earth, My Butt, and Other Big Round Things
    by Carolyn Mackler

  59. 61.
    East
    by Edith Pattou

  60. 62.
    East of Eden
    by John Steinbeck

  61. 63.
    The Eight
    by Katherine Neville

  62. 64.
    Eldest (Inheritance, Book 2)
    by Christopher Paolini

  63. 65.
    Ella Enchanted
    by Gail Carson Levine

  64. 66.
    Elsewhere (Ala Notable Children's Books. Older Readers)
    by Gabrielle Zevin

  65. 67.
    Empire Falls
    by Richard Russo

  66. 68.
    Ender's Game (Ender, Book 1)
    by Orson Scott Card

  67. 69.
    Eragon (Inheritance, Book 1)
    by Christopher Paolini

  68. 70.
    Esperanza Rising
    by Pam Munoz Ryan

  69. 71.
    Fahrenheit 451
    by Ray Bradbury

  70. 72.
    Fallen Angels
    by Walter Dean Myers

  71. 73.
    Fast Food Nation: The Dark Side of the All-American Meal
    by Eric Schlosser

  72. 74.
    Feed
    by M.T. Anderson

  73. 75.
    The Five People You Meet in Heaven
    by Mitch Albom

  74. 76.
    Flowers for Algernon
    by Daniel Keyes

  75. 77.
    For One More Day
    by Mitch Albom

  76. 78.
    The Foretelling
    by Alice Hoffman

  77. 79.
    The Fountainhead
    by Ayn Rand

  78. 81.
    Frozen Rodeo
    by Catherine Clark

  79. 82.
    Gathering Blue (Readers Circle)
    by Lois Lowry

  80. 83.
    The Geography of Girlhood
    by Kirsten Smith

  81. 84.
    Gifts (Annals of the Western Shore)
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

  82. 85.
    Gilead: A Novel
    by Marilynne Robinson

  83. 86.
    Girl with a Pearl Earring
    by Tracy Chevalier

  84. 87.
    The Girls: A Novel
    by Lori Lansens

  85. 88.
    The Giver
    by Lois Lowry

  86. 89.
    Godless
    by Pete Hautman

  87. 90.
    The Gospel According to Larry
    by Janet Tashjian

  88. 91.
    The Great Gatsby
    by F. Scott Fitzgerald

  89. 92.
    The Great Santini: A Novel
    by Pat Conroy

  90. 93.
    A Great and Terrible Beauty (The Gemma Doyle Trilogy)
    by Libba Bray

  91. 94.
    Green Angel
    by Alice Hoffman

  92. 95.
    The Handmaid's Tale
    by Margaret Atwood

  93. 96.
    The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Carson McCullers

  94. 97.
    Heart's Desire: A Novel
    by Laura Pedersen

  95. 98.
    The Highest Tide
    by Jim Lynch

  96. 99.
    The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
    by Douglas Adams

  97. 100.
    The Hobbit
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  98. 101.
    Hoops
    by Walter Dean Myers

  99. 102.

  100. 103.
    The House of the Scorpion
    by Nancy Farmer

  101. 104.
    The House on Mango Street
    by Sandra Cisneros

  102. 105.
    How I Live Now
    by Meg Rosoff

  103. 107.
    The Hungry Ocean: A Swordboat Captain's Journey
    by Linda Greenlaw

  104. 108.
    I Am the Cheese (Laurel-Leaf Library)
    by Robert Cormier

  105. 109.
    I Am the Messenger
    by Markus Zusak

  106. 110.
    I Capture the Castle
    by Dodie Smith

  107. 111.
    I Know This Much Is True (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Wally Lamb

  108. 112.
    I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
    by Maya Angelou

  109. 113.
    If You Come Softly
    by Jacqueline Woodson

  110. 114.
    In Cold Blood
    by Truman Capote

  111. 115.
    In Country: a novel
    by Bobbie Ann Mason

  112. 116.
    Interpreter of Maladies
    by Jhumpa Lahiri

  113. 117.

  114. 118.
    Ironman
    by CHRIS CRUTCHER

  115. 119.
    It
    by Stephen King

  116. 120.
    It's Kind of a Funny Story: A Novel
    by Ned Vizzini

  117. 121.
    The Joy Luck Club
    by Amy Tan

  118. 122.
    Jumping the Scratch
    by Sarah Weeks

  119. 123.
    Just in Case
    by Meg Rosoff

  120. 124.
    Keeping the Moon
    by Sarah Dessen

  121. 125.
    King Dork
    by Frank Portman

  122. 126.
    The Kitchen Boy: A Novel of the Last Tsar
    by Robert Alexander

  123. 127.
    The Kite Runner
    by Khaled/ Sherman, Sue Hosseini

  124. 128.
    Kit's Wilderness (Readers Circle)
    by David Almond

  125. 129.
    Last Call (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
    by Laura Pedersen

  126. 130.
    Les Miserables
    by Victor Hugo

  127. 131.
    Letters to a Bullied Girl: Messages of Healing and Hope
    by Olivia Gardner

  128. 132.
    Letters to a Young Poet
    by Rainer Maria Rilke

  129. 133.
    Life of Pi: Student Edition
    by Yann Martel

  130. 134.

  131. 135.
    The Little Prince

  132. 136.
    A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier
    by Ishmael Beah

  133. 137.
    Looking for Alaska
    by John Green

  134. 138.
    Lord of the Flies (50th Anniversary Edition)
    by William Golding

  135. 139.
    The Lord of the Rings: 50th Anniversary, One Vol. Edition
    by J.R.R. Tolkien

  136. 140.
    The Lottery and Other Stories
    by Shirley Jackson

  137. 141.
    The Lovely Bones
    by Alice Sebold

  138. 142.
    Lush
    by Natasha Friend

  139. 143.
    Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog
    by John Grogan

  140. 144.
    Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History
    by Art Spiegelman

  141. 145.
    The Angel Experiment (Maximum Ride, Book 1)
    by James Patterson

  142. 146.
    School's Out - Forever (Maximum Ride, Book 2)
    by James Patterson

  143. 147.
    Saving the World (Maximum Ride, Book 3)
    by James Patterson

  144. 148.
    Maximum Ride: The Final Warning (The Protectors)
    by James Patterson

  145. 149.
    ?
    Max (Maximum Ride, Book 5)
    by James Patterson

  146. 150.
    Me & Emma
    by Elizabeth Flock

  147. 151.
    Me Talk Pretty One Day
    by David Sedaris

  148. 152.
    ?
    Melting Stones
    by Tamora Pierce

  149. 153.
    Memoirs of a Teenage Amnesiac
    by Gabrielle Zevin

  150. 154.
    Memoirs of a Geisha
    by Arthur Golden

  151. 155.
    The Memory Keeper's Daughter: A Novel
    by Kim Edwards

  152. 156.
    Message in a Bottle
    by Nicholas Sparks

  153. 157.
    Messenger
    by Lois Lowry

  154. 158.
    The Minister's Daughter
    by Julie Hearn

  155. 159.
    Monster
    by Walter Dean Myers

  156. 160.
    My Jim: A Novel
    by Nancy Rawles

  157. 161.
    My Life and Hard Times
    by James Thurber

  158. 162.
    My Sister's Keeper
    by Jodi Picoult

  159. 163.
    Mystic River
    by Dennis Lehane

  160. 164.
    Native Son
    by Richard Wright

  161. 165.
    The Necessary Beggar
    by Susan Palwick

  162. 166.
    Need
    by Carrie Jones

  163. 167.
    Never Let Me Go
    by Kazuo Ishiguro

  164. 168.
    New Moon (The Twilight Saga)
    by Stephenie Meyer

  165. 169.
    Nickel and Dimed: On (Not) Getting By in America
    by Barbara Ehrenreich

  166. 170.
    Night (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Elie Wiesel

  167. 171.
    Nine Stories
    by J.D. Salinger

  168. 172.
    Nineteen Minutes
    by Jodi Picoult

  169. 173.
    The Noah Confessions
    by Barbara Hall

  170. 174.
    A Northern Light
    by Jennifer Donnelly

  171. 175.
    Not a Happy Camper: A Memoir
    by Mindy Schneider

  172. 176.
    The Notebook
    by Nicholas Sparks

  173. 177.
    Now You See Her
    by Jacquelyn Mitchard

  174. 179.
    The Off Season
    by Catherine Gilbert Murdock

  175. 180.
    One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Penguin Classics)
    by Ken Kesey

  176. 181.
    One Hundred Years of Solitude (Essential Penguin)
    by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

  177. 182.
    The Outsiders
    by S.E. Hinton

  178. 183.
    A Painted House
    by John Grisham

  179. 184.
    Paper Towns
    by John Green

  180. 185.
    Peace Like a River
    by Leif Enger

  181. 186.
    Peony in Love: A Novel
    by Lisa See

  182. 187.
    Perfect: A Novel
    by Natasha Friend

  183. 188.
    ?
    The Perfect Storm: A True Story of Men Against the Sea
    by Sebastian JUNGER

  184. 189.
    The Perks of Being a Wallflower
    by Stephen Chbosky

  185. 190.
    Persepolis Boxed Set
    by Marjane Satrapi

  186. 191.
    The Pigman
    by Paul Zindel

  187. 192.
    The Pillars of the Earth
    by Ken Follett

  188. 193.
    The Pilot's Wife
    by Anita Shreve

  189. 194.
    Plainsong
    by Kent Haruf

  190. 195.
    The Plot Against America
    by Philip Roth

  191. 196.
    The Poisonwood Bible
    by Barbara Kingsolver

  192. 197.
    Powers (Annals of the Western Shore)
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

  193. 198.
    A Prayer for Owen Meany
    by John Irving

  194. 199.
    Pretties (Uglies Trilogy, Book 2)
    by Scott Westerfeld

  195. 200.
    Pride and Prejudice (Penguin Classics)
    by Jane Austen

  196. 202.
    The Princess Diaries
    by Meg Cabot

  197. 203.
    Prom
    by Laurie Halse Anderson

  198. 204.
    The Rag and Bone Shop
    by Robert Cormier

  199. 205.
    A Raisin in the Sun
    by Lorraine Hansberry

  200. 206.
    Reading Lolita in Tehran: A Memoir in Books
    by Azar Nafisi

  201. 207.
    Rebecca
    by Daphne Du Maurier

  202. 208.
    Rebel Angels
    by Libba Bray

  203. 209.
    The Red Tent
    by Anita Diamant

  204. 210.
    Rest of Her Life, The
    by Laura Moriarty

  205. 211.
    Rocket Boys (The Coalwood Series #1)
    by Homer Hickam

  206. 212.
    Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry
    by Mildred D. Taylor

  207. 213.
    The Rope Walk: A Novel
    by Carrie Brown

  208. 214.
    Rosemary's Baby
    by Ira Levin

  209. 215.
    The Ruby in the Smoke
    by Philip Pullman

  210. 216.
    The Rule of Four
    by Ian Caldwell

  211. 217.
    Runemarks
    by Joanne Harris

  212. 218.
    Running with Scissors: A Memoir
    by Augusten Burroughs

  213. 219.
    Sabriel (Abhorsen Trilogy)
    by Garth Nix

  214. 220.
    Sarah: A Novel (Canaan Trilogy)
    by Marek Halter

  215. 221.
    Saving Francesca (Bccb Blue Ribbon Fiction Books (Awards))
    by Melina Marchetta

  216. 222.
    The Secret Between Us
    by Barbara Delinsky

  217. 223.
    The Secret History
    by Donna Tartt

  218. 224.
    The Secret Life of Bees
    by Sue Monk Kidd

  219. 225.
    The Secret Life of Sparrow Delaney
    by Suzanne Harper

  220. 226.
    Senioritis
    by Tate Thompson

  221. 227.
    A Seperate Peace
    by Knowles

  222. 228.
    Shadow Divers
    by Robert Kurson

  223. 229.
    The Shadow of the Wind
    by Carlos Ruiz Zafón

  224. 230.
    Sign of the Raven
    by Julie Hearn

  225. 232.
    Skellig
    by David Almond

  226. 233.
    The Sledding Hill
    by Chris Crutcher

  227. 234.
    Snow Falling on Cedars (Penguin Readers, Level 6)
    by David Guterson

  228. 235.
    Snow Flower and the Secret Fan: A Novel
    by Lisa See

  229. 236.
    Snow in August
    by Pete Hamill

  230. 237.
    So B. It
    by Sarah Weeks

  231. 238.
    Someone Like Summer
    by M. E. Kerr

  232. 239.
    Someone Like You
    by Sarah Dessen

  233. 241.
    The Space Between Us: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Thrity N. Umrigar

  234. 242.
    Speak (Platinum Edition)
    by Laurie Halse Anderson

  235. 243.
    Specials (Uglies Trilogy)
    by Scott Westerfeld

  236. 244.
    Stargirl
    by Jerry Spinelli

  237. 245.
    The Story of Edgar Sawtelle: A Novel (Oprah Book Club #62)
    by David Wroblewski

  238. 246.
    Summer of My German Soldier
    by Bette Greene

  239. 247.
    The Sweet Far Thing (Gemma Doyle, Book 3)
    by Libba Bray

  240. 248.
    A Swift Pure Cry
    by Siobhan Dowd

  241. 249.

  242. 250.
    Tallgrass
    by Sandra Dallas

  243. 251.
    Tangerine
    by Edward Bloor

  244. 252.
    Their Eyes Were Watching God
    by Zora Neale Hurston

  245. 253.
    The Things They Carried
    by Tim O'Brien

  246. 254.
    Things I Want My Daughters to Know: A Novel
    by Elizabeth Noble

  247. 255.
    Thirsty
    by M.T. Anderson

  248. 256.
    Thirteen Reasons Why
    by Jay Asher

  249. 257.
    A Thousand Splendid Suns
    by Khaled Hosseini

  250. 258.
    A Time for Dancing
    by Davida Wills Hurwin

  251. 259.
    A Time to Kill
    by John Grisham

  252. 260.
    The Time Traveler's Wife
    by Audrey Niffenegger

  253. 261.
    Tithe: A Modern Faerie Tale
    by Holly Black

  254. 262.
    To Kill a Mockingbird
    by Harper Lee

  255. 263.
    A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (P.S.)
    by Betty Smith

  256. 264.
    The True Confessions of Charlotte Doyle
    by Avi

  257. 265.
    Truth & Beauty: A Friendship
    by Ann Patchett

  258. 267.
    Twilight (The Twilight Saga, Book 1)
    by Stephenie Meyer

  259. 268.
    Twisted
    by Laurie Halse Anderson

  260. 269.
    Uglies (Uglies Trilogy, Book 1)
    by Scott Westerfeld

  261. 270.
    Voices (Annals of the Western Shore)
    by Ursula K. Le Guin

  262. 271.
    Vote for Larry
    by Janet Tashjian

  263. 272.
    Wait for Me
    by An Na

  264. 273.
    A Walk to Remember
    by Nicholas Sparks

  265. 274.
    Water for Elephants
    by Sara Gruen

  266. 275.
    We Need to Talk About Kevin: A Novel (P.S.)
    by Lionel Shriver

  267. 276.
    Weetzie Bat
    by Francesca Lia Block

  268. 277.
    What Happened to Cass McBride?
    by Gail Giles

  269. 278.
    What I Saw And How I Lied
    by Judy Blundell

  270. 279.
    What I Was: A Novel
    by Meg Rosoff

  271. 280.
    When Crickets Cry
    by Charles Martin

  272. 282.
    White Ghost Girls
    by Alice Greenway

  273. 283.
    White Oleander (Oprah's Book Club)
    by Janet Fitch

  274. 284.
    The Widow of the South
    by Robert Hicks

  275. 285.
    The Will Of The Empress (Circle Continues)
    by Tamora Pierce

  276. 286.
    Wintergirls
    by Laurie Halse Anderson

  277. 287.
    Wish You Well
    by David Baldacci

  278. 288.
    ?
    A WIZARD OF EARTHSEA
    by Ursula K. LeGuin

  279. 289.
    A Wrinkle in Time (Madeleine L'Engle's Time Quintet)
    by Madeleine L'Engle

  280. 290.
    A Yellow Raft in Blue Water: A Novel
    by Michael Dorris

  281. 291.

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